The Malayali obsession for fair skin and the desire to overcome the curse of colourism is turning out to be injurious to health. As brown and dark-skinned men and women go increasingly for fairness creams,.
She almost died due to the surgical forceps left behind in her stomach after a caesarean. Something again died in her when for almost six years the medical establishment refused to recognize what had been.
When yesteryear Bollywood actress Asha Parekh said at an event in Goa last year that she doesn’t understand why Indian women wear western dresses for weddings, ‘even if they are fat’, she faced a backlash.
Two weeks ago, a senior doctor couple, both professionally successful and highly respected, were found dead at home, supposedly by prescription drug overdose. They had left a suicide note in which they explained that they.